[OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] "Unsurfaced road" and "Byway"?

[Andy Allan]

On Dec 18, 2007 3:44 PM, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Jo wrote:
> > Here in Belgium, we don't have an ncn or an rcn, but then it's a very
> > small country. I guess we could just use rcn all over the place and
> > forget ncn and lcn exist. I must admit that I had started to believe
> > that this way of tagging cycle routes was very UK specific. That it
> > was the way it's done in the UK. Just like Ulf seems to be believing.
> >
> > Polyglot
>
> If you haven't discovered the page yet, I've just started a page to make
> conventions about using these tags in Belgium, see
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Cycle_Routes
> We have more kind of networks you may think :-)

Cool page, exactly what's needed on a country-by-country basis.
Looking forward to seeing some tagging in Belgium soon, perhaps?

> Maybe we could use the real names of these networks in the "network" key
> instead of the UK tags, but the names look general enough to use them
> here. Otherwise the renderer needs to know about networks all over the
> world...
>
> btw, we'll need a new tag to map the junction networks in Belgium and
> the Netherlands anyway, so expect a non UK-centric cycle tag soon :-)

I saw that stuff e.g. at
http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=12&lat=6923161.21023&lon=574939.45378&layers=B00

Maybe cycle_node = 83 on a given node with rcn = yes on the ways? I
don't know how meaningful the refs on the ways are - would someone
describe a given section of road as being on the "83-97" network?

I'm open to suggestions, particularly from those who have experience
with these style networks.

Cheers,
Andy